This month is coming to an end and I’m feeling drained of creativity. I normally make something pretty much everyday because of my store Pedras and my blog New Sprout or just because. I’ve been having the urge to take photos of things lately. I don’t know the city I live in very well and don’t really feel comfortable walking around it. Normally I wander everywhere I live and find interesting things to take photos of. Now I just don’t know where to wander.
Here is a picture of the only Godetia that has sprouted from seed for me. Not sure if the seed batch I got was bad but nothing ever happened from the many I planted.
Title: Little pricks Description: Cactus dish garden - repurposed styrofoam, acrylic paint & toothpicks Inspiration: This day in history, the toothpick was patented (1872)
Yesterday I forgot to post. Really I just needed to take a break. I feel drained from creating everyday and trying to create before the sun goes down so I can take decent photos. Yesterday I did do some creating really. I took my camera onto my balcony and took photos of my plants. That is rather normal for me since I keep a garden blog called New Sprout. It’s difficult to post gardening related things when I only have a balcony to garden on. My plants are few but that makes me notice changes better then if I had many plants.
This is my Lemon Balm plant. It smells like mosquito repellent and can be used for just that. You can make tea from the leaves and cook with it but the smell doesn’t make me really want to do that. I’m sure it probably doesn’t taste like it smells. I just need to get brave one day.
I have landscape design projects to do today so my crafting time is zilch. I’m a procrastinator and save my homework to the last day. Shame on me.
Sunday, 17 Feb, 2008 - My daughter has been wanting us to get a pet of some kind that would be “hers.” She’s six. So “no” is an easy answer. But we don’t really like denying the kids when we don’t have to. And also, we used to keep aquaria — like 800 gallons at my peak. So after opting out of a hamster, we agreed to fish. We spent half an hour unpacking and picking through the many boxes of equipment that I’ve had set aside for years and years since I was active — getting filters and heaters and lights and such out. We got rid of all our tanks with our last move so we decided to buy one — a barely used five-gallon tank for ten bucks. Small tanks are sweet.
We took Kivi through the whole fresh-water selection at the fish store and selected a dozen gold tetras and an ottocinclus. But for Cathy and I the important part were the plants. We just got a broad selection of shortish plants for $30 to stock the tank. We’ll see what thrives. The thing is, it’s really pretty. Even the cast acrylic ruins that Kivi wanted — the likes of which have never been seen in a tank of *mine*, is nice. It took an hour or so to arrange and plant the tank but it was so worth it to create a lasting and interactive source of pleasure.
Today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month garden bloggers from all over the world show their blooms. Carol from May Dreams Gardens put this together. Check out her blog comments for GBBD to see others who posted for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.
This was my first time posting. I normally don’t have any blooms since most of my plants are young and I like to start them from seed. Here is my post for todays blooms that I have. I don’t have many only a few. I count the photos I took today as my thing-a-day.
i don’t think i entirely know what i’m doing, so i’ll probably read up on ir filters a little more, ask around, and practice some more. but i thought it was kind of cool/funky-looking… the photo came out too dark, so i adjusted it a little and added a little bit of a vignette that i thought helped the composition of the image.
I usually bake something to give out for Valentine’s Day, but this year my co-workers are all so health-conscious that I thought it would be best to think of alternatives. Inspired by the blooming hearts on the cards I designed, I bought a flat of organic strawberry plants and reset them into these darling little rectangular planters I got at Daiso. I even used organic potting mix when I was replanting them. Because there are only a few tiny white blossoms on the plants, I also made some heart plant picks to give it a nice burst of color.
For todays thing-a-day I decided to go take some photos. I have been slacking with my garden blog New Sprout. This was the perfect opportunity to go and take photos of the plants on my balcony (my only garden). For once I tried to just take things at weird angles and make something more artsy. I really loved how the photos of my wanna-be bonsai tree came out. Most are my Peruvian Myrtle and one is my Dwarf Crape Myrtle Sacramento. I’m hoping these will grow once spring hits and that I haven’t killed them during transplant. Both of these two lost all their leave and haven’t shown sign of any new growth. My Jacqueline Hillier Elm didn’t lose it’s leaves and it got some new ones during around November. I played around with photoshop to get some funky colors. I always wanted to do that but on my garden blog I like to keep my photos more true to what I really see.
I planted some strawberry seeds on January 23. It was only dirt and seeds. Since then I have been singing to my plant, putting it by the window so it gets plenty of sun, and giving it water. Water and Sunshine. All it needed was some water and some sun. Here it is, sprouting out, 4 little sprouts, they are so beautiful, and I love them, and when I wake up to see the little sprouts I am surprised and fascinated by the magic of sunshine and water.
